Note 100 — IV. CONCERNING INDIA THE LESS.[71]

Carrobiæ,—referring, I presume, to the carob of the Mediterranean (Ceratonia siliqua). I do not know what he means unless it be tamarinds, which are leguminous pods with some analogy to the carobs of the Mediterranean. The trees may often be called stupendous; but this seems scarcely to be his meaning. The European name is Arabic, támar-ul-Hind (date of India), as Linschoten long ago pointed out.